A blog about how a failed painting made me rethink the theories of composition in my painting of Donegal, Ireland.
This Claude Monet craft for kids is a fun way to make art in your homeschool or classroom! Children will enjoy creating a fingerpainting that mimics his style.
His lurid aesthetic shaped the celebrity age, but 11 years ago LaChapelle escaped to a farm in Hawaii. He talks about his journey from 14-year-old gay runaway in Warhol’s New York to enlightened ‘Grandpa Moses of photography’
Learn How to Make DIY Wooden Photography Backdrops for an affordable food or product background. These dual sided boards look beautiful and resist stains.
A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.
52 Week photography project.
Photo encaustic begins by printing photographs on paper, adhering the paper to a substrate then painting with encaustic on top of the photo.
The world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramović has been strung up, cut, screamed at and had an arrow pointed directly at her heart. In anticipation of her new show, 512 Hours, at London's Serpentine gallery, here are her greatest hits
creating Process Videos in Procreate
This is the ultimate online guide to landscape photography. Download free cheat sheets and follow along as you improve your landscapes!
It's the last post of my series on how to shoot in manual mode! Today we are talking about exposure and trouble shooting in manual mode.
The photographer made his name with a series showing his dysfunctional parents, Ray and Liz, in their squalid Black Country flat. Now he’s turned their story into an award-winning film
Read about the best photography exposure settings and learn how to read a histogram in order to get the correct exposure for your photo.
How the Oatmeal, Ben Franklin and the New York Times helps us creatives master the daily schedule and squeeze the most out of a creative day...by working less!
Dressing! Sauce! Toppings galore!Drizzling and swirling and pouring things over my food is probably among the top 5 things I enjoy about food blogging.
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Negative space photography composition is used daily on TV, in magazines, newspapers and film, because it's so effective at gaining attention
Learn the easiest way to smooth out a wrinkled background in a photo with this step by step photo editing tutorial.
I feel a bit unqualified to cover photoshop, but I’m just going to speak in my own personal language and hopefully this will reach some of you. In a minute, I will show you how I got this before and after. Sit tight.First, let me say that I used photoshop elements 2 for a loooonng
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Unveiling this heavenly phenomenon requires the right camera settings and techniques. So, here is a list of the best Milky Way photography settings to capture the galaxy in all its glory. If needed, find out how to find the Milky Way first.
Some composition examples! Trying to come up with/find as many as I can. Do you know some ones I missed?
Gallery and Blog of Fine Artist Donald Towns. View and collect all his art here.
Photography sheat sheets for amateurs, ranging from manual camera settings to your rights as a photographer.
Phoenix Area Family Photography
In search of finding the most famous paintings in the world? Here is PortraitFlip's exclusive list of 47 Famous Paintings in History!
An in-depth beginner's guide to the exposure triangle in photography, the topics of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
The Artist’s Magazine January/February issue 2015 had an article on landscape composition, but it was these thumbnail sketches that illustrate the concepts which I found to be the most helpfu…
Everybody loves a good waterfall image with a long exposure, but in this article, I’ll show you how to capture more detail and motion in that fascinating tumble of whitewater. Water is the most powerf
At home art lessons for kids. Andy Warhol art history and art projects. Art lessons for kids pre-k - 6th grade. Great for homeschooling.
Exposure is another fundamental topic in photography, and one that is often misunderstood or used in multiple, overlapping usages. This article will introduce the most important use of the term exposure: as a way of talking about the overall lightness and darkness of a given image. Exposure is also the topic for the week of May 11th in the Boost Your Photography 52 Weeks Challenge (#byp52weeks). Read more about #BYP52Weeks or join the group here. Exposure Basics If you are shooting in any mode other than full manual, your camera is the one calculating and determining the exposure for your photograph. When you shoot in Auto or a scene mode, for example, your camera evaluates the scene presented and chooses what it determines to be the correct ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to give you a 'correct' final exposure. Even in Aperture or Shutter Priority modes, you set the ISO and either the aperture or the shutter, and it is the camera that chooses either the shutter or aperture based on what it determines to be a correct exposure. There can be more than one 'correct' exposure however, and these are known as equivalent exposures. You can read more about correct and equivalent exposures in the article All about Exposure. The important thing to know is that the exposure determined by your camera may not be the 'right' exposure, as envisioned by you, and that there are several ways to control your the exposure. The main method is to use exposure compensation. (You can read about some of the other methods for DSLR shooters in More on Exposure: how to fix common exposure problems in your photography or for point-and-shoot shooters in Teaching Kids Photography: shooting modes, focus, and exposure.) Exploring Exposure Compensation Exposure compensation is a way of telling your camera that you want a given photograph to be relatively lighter or darker than the calculated exposure. DSLRs and many point-and-shoot cameras have an option for adjusting exposure compensation while shooting. This number line graph often goes from values of plus-or-minus 2 for point-and-shoots to plus-and-minus 3 or 4 for DSLR cameras. These values are measured in stops, which is a halving or doubling of the amount of light recorded by the camera. So, a photograph shot at +1 exposure compensation will have recorded twice as much light as a photograph shot at 0. This infographic shows the progression of changing the exposure compensation from minus 4 to plus 3, using the exposure compensation graph. (This series was shot using Aperture Priority mode with an aperture of f/5 and an ISO of 100, and the camera choose the shutter speed to match the given exposure value. Since each unit is one stop of light, each photograph represents a shutter speed that is double the amount of time from the previous image, ranging from 1/250 of a second up to a half second.) As you might expect, as you move into the negative values on the exposure compensation scale, your overall photograph becomes much darker. For this particular composition, by the time you read -3 and -4, most of the color and details have been lost in shadow. This style of shooting - using a much darker than expected exposure - is known as low key. Likewise, as you move into the positive values on the exposure compensation scale, your overall photograph becomes much lighter. By +3 for this composition, nearly the entire background has become blown out (white) and much detail has been lost in the flowers. This style of shooting - using a much lighter than expected exposure - is known as high key. There are many situations where you may want a different final exposure than the one chosen by your camera. When shooting bright snow, for example, you might need to use +1 or a positive fraction in order to get the snow looking bright and white. When shooting a dark contrasty black and white shot, you might need to use -1 or a negative fraction in order to keep your background black and the only light falling on your subject instead. If you are unsure about which exposure might be the one that you want, you can also use exposure bracketing (another option within exposure compensation available with DSLR cameras). Exposure bracketing allows you to shoot a series of 3 or more photographs at varying levels of exposure compensation (plus-or-minus 1 is a common choice for exposure bracketing). This gives you the additional benefit of choosing your favorite exposure later, after you have the opportunity to look at and compare them on your computer rather than simply the LCD screen of your camera. Control Your Exposure How will you take creative control of your exposure? Share your efforts in the comments below or, if you want a bigger challenge, come join us for the Boost Your Photography 52 Weeks Challenge #BYP52weeks!
Introduce kids to the magic of animation with simple stop motion projects. Our easy guide helps children create their own fun and imaginative stop motion videos, sparking creativity and storytelling skills
Did you know that Google has a patent search? Here I've downloaded curated some of the best patent art images for your home.
Last time we covered basic three point lighting and that yielded an entirely decent head and shoulders portrait. With a neutral background three point lighting works great and it’s a basic setup that’s been working in photography for decades. Today I want to amp up the power a little...you know how I love lighting power. If I hit the test switch and the lights dim across town from the power drain, you know that’s going to be a fun shoot! There’s also method to the madness as today I want to try lighting with a little more fashion edge to it.
Discover the differences between Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon. The best time of year to visit for photography and where to camp nearby.
If you’re new to photography and daunted by the learning curve, here’s how to achieve six things that beginner photographers most commonly ask us about. 1. Get subjects sharp In most situations you’l
Reflection Photography Cheat Sheet. Yours Free!Using reflections in photography can lead to some amazing effects and dreamy images. Water, windows, mirrors or any sort of reflective surface can change an image into a work of art. This cheat sheet will get you started with the basics of reflection photography!Our cheat sheets are designed so that you can print them out easily and take them with you anywhere you go.Click the button below to start your download.Do you want to try out our photography projects and improve your technical and creative skills? Click here to find out more.Copyright © {tcb_current_year} Light
